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Eleanor and Morton Dear Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Eleanor and Morton Dear Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$6kHealth$3kInternational$3kRecreation & Sports$1kEducation$232Crime & Legal$175Youth Development$100Human Services$100Other$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$125
Median grant
4
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL$1,295
FRIENDS OF THE IDF$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
PLAY FOR PINK$125
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$100
ST JUDES$100
VFW$100
FOP LODGE 50$75
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $132 → 11%UNICEF: $360 → 17%FRIENDS OF THE IDF: $1k → 20%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $143 → 14%FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE # 50: $75 → 11%WOMEN OF TOMORROW: $100 → 15%VFW: $100 → 15%DEIRDRE'S HOUSE: $100 → 4%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $100 → 6%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100 → 8%ARC OF UNION COUNTY: $100 → 10%JEWISCH COMMUNITY CENTER OF LBI: $100 → 11%CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL: $1k → 16%AHRC NYC: $100 → 17%CANTORS WORLD: $50 → 20%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $100 → 14%FOP LODGE 50: $75 → 11%NEW JERSEY GOLF FOUNDATION: $825 → 8%CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL: $1k → 16%ST ANDREW'S SOCIETY: $100 → 17%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $36 → 14%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $100 → 11%NEW JERSEY GOLF FOUNDATION: $475 → 8%CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL: $1k → 16%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $100 → 17%TRUST BRIDGE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $100 → 11%CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL: $1k → 16%AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL: $100 → 17%RALES JFS: $1k → 11%ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $800 → 17%HELPING ISRAEL FUND INC: $1k → 11%ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $800 → 17%HELPING ISRAEL FUND INC: $80 → 11%PLAY FOR PINK: $200 → 17%PLAY FOR PINK: $200 → 17%PLAY FOR PINK: $125 → 17%PLAY FOR PINK: $100 → 17%PLAY FOR PINK: $100 → 17%PLAY FOR PINK: $100 → 17%PLAY FOR PINK: $50 → 17%PLAY FOR PINK: $50 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12k · 9 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$12k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+13%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthEducationReligionCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • IC
    ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +58%
  • TN
    The New Jersey Golf Foundation Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +192%
  • HI
    Helping Israel Fund
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2022 · $360 · revenue -21%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $132 · revenue +112%
  • TA
    The Arc of Union County Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $100 · revenue +11%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sherit Isroel
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2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
University of Judaism Foundation
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4
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
5
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
6
Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc

The purposes of this corporation are to provide relief for, and to minister to the physical well-being of needy persons in israel; to support and maintain public hospitals, clinics, to relieve sickness and distress, and to prevent plague…

Philanthropy
7
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
8
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
9
Better Future for Israel

To strengthen israel's future in these areas: 1)providing new immigrants with assistance in a few key areas: representing them as they navigate government ministries and assisting them with their challenges as new immigrants to israel.…

Philanthropy
10
American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc

The american friends of beit issie shapiro (afobis) is a national not for profit fundraising organization with regional offices in new york city, north miami beach, fl and los angeles, ca. afobis is dedicated to supporting beit issie…

Human Services
11
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
12
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women of Tomorrow Mentor and Scholarship Program Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 50. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL: $4,930 · OtherCONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAELISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $1,600 · OtherISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INCIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCONGREGATION SHIRAT SHALOM CORP: $880 · OtherCONGREGATION SHIRAT SHALOM CORP+11 more: $1,100 · Other+11 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,118 · InternationalFRIENDS OF …UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $360 · InternationalUNITED STAT…AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL INC: $100 · InternationalAMERICANS F…The New Jersey Golf Foundation Inc: $1,300 · Recreation & SportsThe New J…Helping Israel Fund: $1,248 · ReligionHelping I…CANTOR'S WORLD LTD: $50 · ReligionPLAY FOR PINK INC: $925 · Crime & LegalDEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $100 · Crime & LegalAmerican Heart Association Inc: $279 · HealthBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $100 · HealthSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $132 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100 · EducationWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC: $100 · Youth Development
Other$9,510International$1,578Recreation & Sports$1,300Religion$1,298Crime & Legal$1,025Health$379Education$232Youth Development$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New Jersey Golf Foundation Inc: $1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHelping Israel Fund: $1,248 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,118 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $925 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $279 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $132 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arc of Union County Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 50: $75 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Eleanor and Morton Dear Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eleanor and Morton Dear Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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